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Committees on Publication have interacted with state and national legislatures ever since Mary Baker Eddy's day. Legislative work is one of the special actions authorized under Article 1, Section 6, of the Church Manual.

Tony Lobl, District Manager for Committees in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, sees notable growth in the "mainstreaming" of spirituality. "Much of the public," he says, "is evidencing a desire for what Christian Science offers.

John Minard, Christian Science Committee on Publication for the Internet, says his mission is "to provide thousands of visible points of accurate, inspiring, and healing items about Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, and Science and Health online. Our goal is to help every spiritual seeker on the Net find accurate and constructive information on Christian Science, as well as to provide the opportunity for them to get to know others who've been healed through its practice.

"I am pleased to be able to inform you that everyone's prayer and support has borne fruit today. My article has been published in The Times of India.

Since November 2001, Judy Macpherson, the Committee in Berksire, England, has posted almost 1. 500 messages on a popular UK website devoted to spirituality and health issues.

Beverly Peake is an individual Christian Scientist who takes her responsibility to participate in the system of Committee work seriously. Her letters to the editor have been published in The Miami Herald and the Coral Gables Gazette.

Doors to parliament have opened where doors had never even been ajar, reports Edmund Goltman, the Committee for KwaZulu/Natal province in South Africa. "Up until October 2003, we had no direct contact in KZN with government or the legislature," says Mr.

Across the world, 153 local Committees on Publication all work under the direction of the office of the Manager of the Committees on Publication in Boston. These offices, located in 49 countries on six continents, are supported by more than 1,500 Assistant Committees.

It's clear from the Eddy-Farlow correspondence that, from the beginning, local branch churches and Christian Science societies in the jurisdiction of a Committee on publication were to take responsibility for financial support of the Committee's work. The Christian Science Sentinel of July 21, 1906, described this responsibility: "It should be borne in mind that this work cannot be carried on without expense, and this expense, when divided pro rata among the membership of the branch churches throughout a whole State, is but a small item for each one, and yet it is as necessary to the prosperity of the local churches as is any other outlay.

A search on Afred Farlow's name in the database containing Mary Baker Eddy's previously unpublished writings yields over 700 documents. Farlow also wrote hundreds of letters and reports to Mrs.